July 18, 2008	Friday	Rajab 14, 1429

DADU, July 17: The Anti-Corruption Establishment on Thursday lodged an FIR against a former mukhtiarkar and three tapedars on charges of changing revenue record of 450 acres of land belonging to the 18th century ruler of Sindh Mian Yar Mohammad Kalhoro and his family in Khudabad on the Indus Highway between Sehwan and Dadu.

The FIR was lodged by ACE Inspector Zakir Hussain Samoon against Ghazi Khan Talpur, Ghulam Qadir Memon, Ahmed Khan Naich, Ghulam Sarwar, Mohammad Alam Solangi, Ghulam Rasool, Mohammad Ramzan, Nazeer Birhamani, Qurban Panhwar, Basheer, Ayaz and Ghulam Nabi, accusing them of tempering with the revenue record and changing the ownership of land to their name.

The land is adjacent to the tomb of Mian Yar Muhammad Kalhoro. Also considered a saint by many, Mian Yar Muhammad Kalhoro was the first ruler of Kalhora dynasty who ruled between 1701 and 1718. He rebuilt Khudabad and declared it the capital of Sindh, which remained so from 1701 to 1750 AD.